The End Is Near

[LD5SZRA]

Tim Slattery wrote:
>

> I was an MVP for something like 12 years, and I can tell you that MVPs
> CANNOT delete posts. Whatever happened to you, it was NOT an MVP
> deleting your post.
>

Ah but you were not a senior MVP; You were only a boot boy
cleaning the dirty boots of Carey Frish who has full control of
the "DELETE" button!

HTH
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[Michael]

"LD5SZRA" <LD5SZRA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Tim Slattery wrote:
>>
>
>> I was an MVP for something like 12 years, and I can tell you that MVPs
>> CANNOT delete posts. Whatever happened to you, it was NOT an MVP
>> deleting your post.
>>
>
> Ah but you were not a senior MVP; You were only a boot boy
> cleaning the dirty boots of Carey Frish who has full control of
> the "DELETE" button!

If that were true you'd be nothing but a figment of your imagination.

> HTH

Not really.
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"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

 

[LD5SZRA]

Steve Rindsberg wrote:
>


> there probably won't be many MVP+moderators left after a short while.

If this becomes a reality over the next few months then I will be
the first person to say something better has come out of
Microsoft's rather absurd decision to close its newsgroups.

Incidentally, we have a new Prime Minister (United Kingdom) today
and his first task is to place an order with Dell, HP and
Microsoft of some 1 Million PCs and Laptops with Windows 7 and
Office 2010 pre-installed and the plan is to get as many as 3,000
MVPs to assist the Government to roll out these machines and train
staff on a voluntary basis due to British Government in serious
financial problems!!!! The govt will, of course, honor its pledge
to cut taxes for the rich and increase the taxes and VAT for the
poor to make rich richer and make poor poorer.

hth


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[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Well, I hope that moderators on the forums are subject to some manner of
review and that moderators who go around deleting posts that shouldn't be
deleted will be relieved of those duties. But I'm not a moderator over
there so I really don't know.

All I can say is that 2138 posts later as far as I know none of mine have
been deleted (except for the one that *I* submitted for deletion myself).

I've certainly seen no evidence of posts being deleted for "propaganda"
reasons. And I can assure you that in my...14(?) years as an MVP I've never
once had anybody from Microsoft tell me what my opinion had to be or take
issue with anything I had to say - including those times when I've been
openly critical of Microsoft products or policies.

The only guidance along that line I've ever received is when we were briefed
on items that were not public knowledge yet and so we were reminded that the
content was restricted by our Non-Disclosure Agreement. In every case that
was a matter of a not-yet-released product or feature and it was simply a
matter of "You can't talk about this publicly right now."

In my opinion claims that the new forums are somehow going to be a
restricted space controlled by Microsoft marketing are just paranoid FUD.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon

"Gordon" <gordon.burgessparker@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:#IECleN8KHA.5464@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" <bens@bogusaddress.mvp> wrote in message
> news:C771F472-B1E1-4444-B2AE-1D2A16E1772A@microsoft.com...
>> Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
>> are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post then
>> that was an individual's decision.
>>
>
> In addition, posts can and should be deleted IF they are racist, abusive
> etc etc. Mine certainly was NOT.

 

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> I've certainly seen no evidence of posts being deleted for "propaganda"
> reasons. And I can assure you that in my...14(?) years as an MVP I've
> never once had anybody from Microsoft tell me what my opinion had to be or
> take issue with anything I had to say - including those times when I've
> been openly critical of Microsoft products or policies.

To me, Microsoft still is a well-respected company (even though I have been
disappointed by their performance in the past few years), and I have no
doubt that they will not do anything like this.

The problem is not the company but these "individuals" who have no ideas
about the critical success factors of the company and only want to be a free
rider plus to be an ass-kisser.

The ONLY problem for Microsoft is how to get rid of them without pissing
them off.

"Ben M. Schorr, MVP" <bens@bogusaddress.mvp> wrote in message
news:8A8F8CE2-642D-44E6-B24F-F55C70548235@microsoft.com...
> Well, I hope that moderators on the forums are subject to some manner of
> review and that moderators who go around deleting posts that shouldn't be
> deleted will be relieved of those duties. But I'm not a moderator over
> there so I really don't know.
>
> All I can say is that 2138 posts later as far as I know none of mine have
> been deleted (except for the one that *I* submitted for deletion myself).
>
> I've certainly seen no evidence of posts being deleted for "propaganda"
> reasons. And I can assure you that in my...14(?) years as an MVP I've
> never once had anybody from Microsoft tell me what my opinion had to be or
> take issue with anything I had to say - including those times when I've
> been openly critical of Microsoft products or policies.
>
> The only guidance along that line I've ever received is when we were
> briefed on items that were not public knowledge yet and so we were
> reminded that the content was restricted by our Non-Disclosure Agreement.
> In every case that was a matter of a not-yet-released product or feature
> and it was simply a matter of "You can't talk about this publicly right
> now."
>
> In my opinion claims that the new forums are somehow going to be a
> restricted space controlled by Microsoft marketing are just paranoid FUD.
>
> --
> -Ben-
> Ben M. Schorr, MVP
> Roland Schorr & Tower
> http://www.rolandschorr.com
> http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm
> Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
> http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon
>
> "Gordon" <gordon.burgessparker@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:#IECleN8KHA.5464@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" <bens@bogusaddress.mvp> wrote in message
>> news:C771F472-B1E1-4444-B2AE-1D2A16E1772A@microsoft.com...
>>> Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
>>> are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post then
>>> that was an individual's decision.
>>>
>>
>> In addition, posts can and should be deleted IF they are racist, abusive
>> etc etc. Mine certainly was NOT.
>